Uncle Latif

Uncle Latif
by Jahanshah Javid
09-Mar-2010
 

I visited my Ammeh Parvin yesterday. She lost Latif Ramazan-Nia, her husband of 63 years, less than a month ago. I had tremendous respect for him. He had a dignified, no-nonsense manner with a generous heart. When I was growing up in Abadan, to me he symbolized professional success. He had the air of a leader and WAS a leader. In the late 1960s he was the head of the largest refinery in the world in Abadan -- and the first Iranian in that position.

My cousin Nersi drove us to the Valley Memorial cemetery in Novato, less than an hour north of San Francisco, to visit Uncle Latif's grave in a green plot surrounded by hundreds of other Iranians. "There would have been a lot fewer of these graves if the revolution had not happened," I heard someone say. So true. At least they would have died in their own country >>> see photos essay

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Orang Gholikhani

Tasliat

by Orang Gholikhani on Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:56 AM PST

Words are useless.

Orang


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Anahid Hojjati

Dear Jahanshah, I am sorry for your loss

by Anahid Hojjati on Tue Mar 09, 2010 06:42 PM PST

Dear JJ, your uncle was very accomplished man. Thanks for sharing his story. The pictures were great. One that has stayed in my mind more is the one he is standing next to a beautiful lady. May he rest in peace.


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SamSamIIII

بر خیز ز خواب تا

SamSamIIII
Tue Mar 09, 2010 03:49 PM PST

 

اخر سر اين چند بند شيخ به درد يه کاري خورد

بر خیز ز خواب تا شرابی بخوریم
زان پیش که از زمانه تابی بخوریم
کاین چرخ ستیزه روی ناگه روزی
 چندان ندهد گاه که آبی بخوریم

با ارزويه شادی روان برای ان رفته و شکيبايی و دل آسايي بازماندگان و آی جاويد.

 


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M. Saadat Noury

یا د ش پا یا و راهش پویا با د

M. Saadat Noury
Tue Mar 09, 2010 02:39 PM PST

از شمار دو چشم یک تن کم / وز شمار خرد هزاران بیش 

 یا د ش پا یا  و راهش پویا با د


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Souri

Tasliat JJ jon

by Souri on Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:09 AM PST

I didn't know Mr Ramazan-Nia until I read that blog of Nersi about him.

A big loss for all the Iranian. May his soul rests in peace. My condolences to you and your aunt's family.


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Hovakhshatare

I am proud he was an Iranian. I hope he rests in eternal peace

by Hovakhshatare on Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:31 AM PST

and my condolence to you and your family. 

The tragedy of 79 was that we took a whole generation of honorable men, replaced them with with dishonorable subhumans (Namard) and gave them a blank check to murder our best, make the rest refugees and burn the following 2 generations and the country into the ground.

I shiver to think of 31 years of wasted talent, energy and nation building. The dozens and hundreds of capable professional that could have been trained and mentored by your uncle and those like him. That instead may be honing their skills in tyranny, corruption, murder, or chasing a meals for their family as they waste away in a dead end state of affairs.

Dobare misazamat vatan. 


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sima

JJ jan, so sorry

by sima on Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:06 AM PST

I hate this business of people dying in exile. I'll never get used to it -- but heck, it will happen to ourselves in not too-distant of a future! Tasliyat to all of you. Love to all the family.


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Jahanshah Javid

Thank You

by Jahanshah Javid on Tue Mar 09, 2010 09:44 AM PST

Red Wine, Princess, Darius & Mahmoud. You're very kind.


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mahmoudg

A truly great man

by mahmoudg on Tue Mar 09, 2010 09:06 AM PST

Him and my uncle Abbas were good friends, as they both worked for the same organization and often saw each other here in the US after the dreaded revolution.  that country lost so many good people then, and now it still continues to loose these brains.  heif.  May he rest in peace.


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Darius Kadivar

Tasliat !

by Darius Kadivar on Tue Mar 09, 2010 08:45 AM PST

Condolences and my he rest in peace !


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Princess

Sorry to hear about your loss.

by Princess on Tue Mar 09, 2010 08:43 AM PST

My condolence to you and your extended family. Rooheshoon shad!

 


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Red Wine

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by Red Wine on Tue Mar 09, 2010 08:30 AM PST

خداوند ایشان را رحمت کند.

دوست عزیز این غم وارده را به شما و عزیزانتان تسلیت عرض می‌کنم،امید وارم که غم آخر شما و باقیماندگان ایشان باشد.

 


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